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THE CORNFIELDS by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE CORNFIELDS RISE ABOVE MANKIND
Last Line: SOME BEAUTIFUL, DEVOUT RETURN?

The cornfields rise above mankind,
Lifting white torches to the blue,
Each season not ashamed to be
Magnificently decked for you.

What right have you to call them yours,
And in brute lust of riches burn
Without some radiant penance wrought,
Some beautiful, devout return?






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